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Stone Tool: Modern Uses

Stone tools are tools made partially or entirely out of stone. They were used widely in prehistoric societies and Stone Age cultures. Archaeologists study stone tools, called lithic analysis, to learn about prehistoric societies. Stone tools include arrowheads, spear points, and querns. They are made through processes like lithic reduction, where flakes are struck off a stone core using a hammerstone. Chipped stone tools were nearly ubiquitous in prehistoric societies because stone was plentiful and the tools were easy to make and sharpen.

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Stone Tool: Modern Uses

Stone tools are tools made partially or entirely out of stone. They were used widely in prehistoric societies and Stone Age cultures. Archaeologists study stone tools, called lithic analysis, to learn about prehistoric societies. Stone tools include arrowheads, spear points, and querns. They are made through processes like lithic reduction, where flakes are struck off a stone core using a hammerstone. Chipped stone tools were nearly ubiquitous in prehistoric societies because stone was plentiful and the tools were easy to make and sharpen.

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Stone tool

A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out ofstone. Although stone tool-dependent societies and cultures still exist today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric, particularly Stone Age cultures that have become extinct. Archaeologists often study such prehistoric societies, and refer to the study of stone tools as lithic analysis. Stone has been used to make a wide variety of different tools throughout history, including arrow heads, spearpoints and querns. Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or chipped stone, and a person who creates tools out of the latter is known as a flintknapper. Chipped stone tools are made from cryptocrystalline materials such as chert or flint,radiolarite, chalcedony, basalt, quartzite and obsidian via a process known as lithic reduction. One simple form of reduction is to strike stone flakes from a nucleus (core) of material using a hammerstone or similar hard hammer fabricator. If the goal of the reduction strategy is to produce flakes, the remnant lithic core may be discarded once it has become too small to use. In some strategies, however, a flintknapper reduces the core to a rough unifacial or bifacial preform, which is further reduced using soft hammer flaking techniques or by pressure flaking the edges. More complex forms of reduction include the production of highly standardized blades, which can then be fashioned into a variety of tools such as scrapers, knives, sickles and microliths. In general terms, chipped stone tools are nearly ubiquitous in all pre-metal-using societies because they are easily manufactured, the tool stone is usually plentiful, and they are easy to transport and sharpen.

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The invention of the flintlock gun mechanism in the sixteenth century produced a demand for specially shaped gunflints. The gunflint industry survived until the middle of the twentieth century in some places, including in the English town of Brandon.[11] For specialist purposes glass knives are still made and used today, particularly for cutting thin sections for electron microscopy in a technique known as microtomy. Freshly cut blades are always used since the sharpness of the edge is very great. These knives are made from high-quality manufactured glass, however, not from natural raw materials such as chert or obsidian. Surgical knives made from obsidian are still used in some delicate surgeries.

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Main article: Tool stone In archaeology, a tool stone is a type of stone that is used to manufacture stone tools. Alternatively, the term can be used to refer to stones used as the raw material for tools.

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